Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling coral in appearance or form.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling coral in form; branching or otherwise shaped like coral; coralliform. Also corallinoid, coralloidal.
- noun A polyzoan or moss-animalcule, as some of the corallines, likened to a coral polyp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the shape or form of
coral .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sometimes yellowish crystals of it occur plentifully in short thick prisms, but the common form is that of round coralloid bunches, having a radiated structure within.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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Derbyshire there are masses of coralloid and other shells which have become siliceous, and are thus left with large vacuities sometimes within and sometimes on the outside of the remaining form of the shell, like the French millstones, and I suppose might serve the same purpose; the gravel of the Derwent is full of specimens of this kind.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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